Quotes By Clifford Geertz

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.